Funerals
Assignment. Greece: No Place to Die. Audio, 23 minutes
The complex business of dying in Greece where the dead are exhumed after three years
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Greece: No Place to Die. Audio, 28 minutes
The complex business of dying in Greece. With Chloe Hadjimatheou.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Zoos explored, Funeral arranging. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor goes on a sociological safari, plus a look at reasons behind funeral choices
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
5 Live Investigates. Doping in rugby and funeral costs. Audio, 47 minutes
How serious is doping in grassroots rugby? Plus the rising cost of funerals.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Pushing Up the Daisies. Audio, 28 minutes
As she approaches her 80th year, Penelope Simpson decides to paint her own coffin.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Burial. Audio, 18 minutes
Burial is a practice that’s been carried out for centuries – but why do we do it?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. A Death in Honduras. Audio, 28 minutes
A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Feed Me to the Wind. Audio, 28 minutes
Across Britain, cremation ashes remain uncollected. Amanda Mitchinson investigates why.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. A Death Unnoticed. Audio, 26 minutes
John Waite finds out about the funerals organised by councils.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
All in a Day's Work. Undertakers. Audio, 23 minutes
Undertaking is a lucrative business
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Soul Music. Series 3, Barber's Adagio for Strings. Audio, 30 minutes
Leonard Slatkin on the impact of the adagio that became America's 'national funeral music'
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Death in Malawi. Audio, 30 minutes
The rising death rate in due to AIDS and the effect it's having on the cost of funerals
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Private Lives of Strangers - Part Two. Audio, 29 minutes
Meet Gladys Hessi who prepares bodies for open caskets ahead of funerals in Ghana
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Setting Sail. Audio, 28 minutes
An exploration of death from 1985 by Piers Plowright and Malcolm Clarke.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
